This week General Electric turns 125, and Vice Chairman Beth Comstock celebrated with the tweet: You don’t get to be 125 years old without learning about #change! Happy birthday @generalelectric. At a time when the average lifespan of a listed...

In today’s blog, we discuss some of the insights from the first interviews from our latest research project: Alternative Approaches To Developing Digital Strategy. We are uncovering some fascinating input, but our investigations are still in progress. If you are...

I am excited to speak this Tuesday on the Building Blocks of a Digital Operating Model, at the CeBIT Enterprise Digital Arena in Hanover. In my talk, I will be taking a deeper look at the connected organisations that produce innovative digital products. There are now...

The digital world is often described as flat; as a level playing field for companies where location has little to no influence on outcome. But inside large multinational companies the world is decidedly lumpy, with structural and cultural barriers inhibiting flatness...

Debate concerning the inevitable decline or imminent resurrection of western manufacturing has raged for years. The continuing search for long-term solutions to the vast, shifting market dynamics has left a litter of change projects behind. There may be...

Corporate leadership is already struggling to keep up with the connected workforce and increasing speed and complexity in the digital economy. But looking ahead to the rise of algorithmic and human-machine co-working, the situation is even more worrying. A reboot...

Tuesday, February 18, 2014. That’s the day at my previous company when the reality of leading millenials hit me. That morning, when I booted up my laptop, my calendar made me pause. I turned to a junior consultant sitting to my right and said, “I’ve...

WAYS OF WORKING Practical steps to achieve a new L&D mindset and approach. Tim O’Reilly’s 2009 piece on working on stuff that matters is still good advice in 2016. Is order essential? Another critique of Holacracy. SOME STEPS TO...

LEADERSHIP Can business leaders be effective at both strategy and execution? How to navigate your own ego (video). Stopping yourself from overthinking in business. MANAGEMENT & HR How to bring HR into the core of the business. Rethinking workplace...

FROM THE POST*SHIFT TEAM A new way for corporates to innovate with start-ups. FUTURE OF WORK Five ways work will change in the future. An example of what social scientists can bring to corporate research. From plan-and-control to strategic agility. ...